Businesses and universities are hiring people with Linux Skills, deploying
Linux on servers, and evaluating Linux on the desktop. Microsoft's pricing
and policies have made Linux an attractive alternative. University IT
departments should start planning to support Linux on the desktop in
recognition of its increased importance.
-Video by Raymond Steding

Rasmus Lerdorf born in Godhavn/Qeqertarsauq on Disco Island off the coast
of Greenland in 1968. He has been dabbling with UNIX-based solutions since
1985. He's known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995,
the mod_info Apache module and he can be blamed for the ANSI92 SQL-defying
LIMIT clause in mSQL 1.x which has now, at least conceptually, crept into
both MySQL and PostgresSQL. Rasmus discusses PHP's application to web
scripting.
-Video by Renu Bora

JP is a scientist at USC's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), where he
is researching new facial animation and tracking techniques in
collaboration with Ulrich Neumann (IMSC director) and students in the
Computer Graphics and Immersive Technology lab. He has software development
credits on Forest Gump, Godzilla, and several other movies, several
publications and patents, and his research has been adopted in several
commercial graphics packages. J.P's talk is about Graphics in Linux
-Video by Benjamin Wade

Zak Greant Presents: Perils of Open/Free Licensing in a
Proprietary World

Zak Greant is a happy member of the Open Source community where he spends
most of his time in the MySQL and PHP projects Despite being surrounded by
hard-core Emacs addicts at MySQL, he still clings to Vim and brandishes '.'
to keep them at bay. Zak discusses Open/Free licensing issues
-Video by Clay Claiborne

The Linux kernel 2.5 development series culminated nearly a year of rapid
development with the feature freeze on 31 October. Numerous new features
and enhancements were merged to further increase Linux's performance and
robustness. This talk discusses some of the more interesting and relevant
new innovations in the kernel including, but not limited to, block I/O
enhancements, new O/(1) scheduler, kernel preemption, new reverse-mapping
VM, and thread enhancements.
-Video by Benjamin Wade

Bill Hilf's talk includes an overview of Linux momentum in the marketplace,
Total Cost of Ownership, and IBM's commitment to Linux. The latter section,
"Linux@IBM" discusses how IBM is investing and using Linux today as well as
the contributions and interaction IBM has made and continues with Linux and
the Open Source community. Bill also discusses how IBM's customers are
deploying Linux today, including descriptions of customer references
and solutions
-Video by Renu Bora

An all powerful single user account is often too much power in one person's
hands to perform the jobs they need to do. A form of RBAC (Role Based
Access Control) has been available in versions of Solaris for over then
years but only became main stream in Solaris 8. Darren gives an overview of
some of the areas of compatibility and divergence in the OS security
features of Solaris and Linux
-Video by Benjamin Wade

Linux, unlike many other Unix environments, is actually very easy to recover
after a system failure or other disaster - IF you have appropriate backups
and boot media and a disaster recovery plan. By defining system backups
appropriately, ensuring that you have a full listing of the necessary
hardware (in case you have to replace the entire system), having a manual
operation plan while the recovery is occurring, and keeping boot media and
system backups offsite, everyone - from the smallest business to the
largest corporation can easily turn a system disaster into an non-event.
The presentation examines various recovery scenarios and builds a sample
disaster recovery plan centered around Linux
-Video by Renu Bora

Patrick Mochel is the primary designer and author of both the driverfs
system and the new device model in the ongoing 2.5 kernel development
series. He will elaborate on the need of the new device driver model with
emphasis on the accompanying driverfs implementation and its benefits.
-Video by Renu Bora